I Fell into a vat of Chocolate and paid the price

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb4qJ5Za6zY

Geneva:
Getting there was quite an experience.  The French unions have been on strike for several months, disrupting train service.   Additionally, the air traffic controllers strike on various days.   We were supposed to take the 2 hour train ride from Lyon to Geneva, to arrive in Geneva at 2:00 PM. Instead, we got this:  5 1/2 hot hours of bus ride which took us within 10 km of Geneva, only to turn south another 25km so we could change buses and arrive in a remote bus stop about 3 km from the central station in Geneva around 6:30 PM.  A really nice Geneva resident was on the same bus with his and accompanied a group of fellow passengers to the central train station.  Road weary, we arrived at our hotel around 7:30... then went out for dinner at Bistro de Beouf.  Geneva's version of French.  Pretty good.

One of the many cool things about Geneva is that all hotel guests get free passes to all public transit during their stay.  That said, it's a very expensive place

Re-energized the next morning, we headed out for a ride across the lake to the old town.

Flower Clock with Alexandra

Me and my fountain

Läderach  Best chocolate ever!!  But it's about $50 / kilo.

Botanical Gardens

Natural History Museum - 2 headed turtle
The only live animal in the place

Didn't take pictures of this one... but we inadvertently stumbled upon Geneva's red light district while strolling around one evening.  One establishment had ladies in the window, like a Macy's 34th street display, only tackier with colored neon lights.

French Unions strike again!!!
We had tickets to Munich to visit Alexandra's sister for May 24.  We got to the airport to find out that the Easy Jet flight was cancelled.   Later discovered that we weren't the only one.  To their credit, EasyJet gave us lunch vouchers for airport food, put us up at the Airport Crown Plaza for the night, fed us dinner and breakfast, and got us out on the same flight about 24 hrs later.  Got to go into town in the morning to replenish the chocolate supply etc.  A nice relaxing day on EasyJet's nickel.  The customer service agent who arranged all of this for us (Fanny) took good care of us.  It took a long time for the hotel to confirm, so she gave us 30e in vouchers to get lunch upstairs, and even came to find us when the confirmation was finished.  Pretty remarkable service considering that a whole slew of their flights were cancelled and they had about a 1 hour queue (fortunately for us, we were one of the first in line).
Finally got to Munich a day late and a few euros short.